Soon after breakfast he and Pincher went "up-attic" to see what they could find, while Grace followed her grandmother and aunties from parlor to kitchen, and from kitchen to pantry.
Grace embraced everybody twice over; but Horace was a little shy, and would only give what his aunties called "canary kisses.
So she ran out to the barn with a pail, though Gavin was determined she should not milk, and she helped with the separator, doing everything with her usual swiftness, and the Aunties looked on in amazement and admiration.
McGarry led the Aunties back to the car and as Gavin climbed in he cried out, "Oh, Auntie Flora, I'm really home.
Gavin was a tall fellow and well built, but his clothes, the majority of which his Aunties still fashioned, were always too small and very ill-fitting.
McGarry and a half dozen women, and the Aunties were running about laughing and crying, and it seemed as if every one had suddenly gone quite mad.
For all its mistakes were but the result of the overwhelming sympathy and joy of his friends, and relief that the Aunties had not, after all, lost the light of their eyes.
I always like weeds best, but I daren't tell myAunties that," he said.
But the Aunties made it clear that they expected her to go, and she could not bear that they be disappointed on this the greatest day of their lives.
They all had dinner at Craig-Ellachie and they took pictures of the old house, and of the three Aunties in the garden, and another of Auntie Elspie spinning in the door way.
The Aunties sent a gay message by John, when he was over at the Craig-Ellachie threshing, to the effect that Elspie had broken off her engagement.
Gavin carefully helped each of them alight, for the Aunties had given much time to their boy's manners and had seen to it that he did not fail in little acts of courtesy.
For the Aunties had been too happy to keep from telling, and Mrs. Sutherland had not been guiltless of making Christina's faithlessness public.
So prim little Ariadne was sent home, and the exhausted aunties left Rose to her own devices for a day or two.
Seeing this, the poor aunties racked their brains for a new amusement and determined to venture a bold stroke, though not very hopeful of its success.
As Mr. Baillie Pegram never knew my father, I couldn't understand why he and I should be enemies, but when I said something like that, I saw that the aunties were terribly shocked.
Whereupon the aunties took up their parable with, 'Well, well!
When we did so at length the old auntieswere waiting at the gate, and then he broke into exclamations again.
He had fainted again, and it is extraordinary how helpless the aunties are in a case of illness.
I have sent the aunties to bed, but Rosa has made me promise to awaken her at four, that she may take her turn at his bedside.
What was I to do after everything was settled and the auntiesprovided for?
Their aunties remonstrated at one of his sex being called Daisy; but when the children asked in an aggrieved manner, "Are there no boy daisies?
He pretends to his aunties that he does not care for me, but no one makes more of me (on the sly) than Master Karl.
Your Aunties spent laborious days In working at Y.
I set to work; I rose at six, Summer and winter; chopped the sticks, Kindled the fire, made early tea For Aunties and the V.
Mammas and aunties of would-be young artists seem to have made a veritable bogy-man of this would-be lady-killer.
But the mammas and the aunties may feel perfectly safe for another reason.
The aunties scampered out through a side door to snatch some clothes from the grass-plot, and to gather up the bright tin pans and pails that had been sunning on the long benches.
A call to breakfast was obeyed, though we could hardly eat, the chicks jumping up every minute to look at something new and strange going on below, and the aunties quite wishing that they might commit such a breach of decorum.
But nothing could stop it; and all through the afternoon and evening, whenever the papas saw any of the aunties or mammas round, they would begin to ask the grandfather more particulars about the turkey.
He also threw the aunties into pleased confusion by pretending that he was going to kiss them, and occasioned no end of laughter and good-natured banter by his incessant teasing of Mr. Chester.
My aunties dance, and their mamma, my grandmamma, was at the party once.
The Aunties looked cross; and Auntie Emmeline smelt as if she had been crying.
Veronica had returned to the group formed by Grannie and the Aunties and some strangers.
Once Frances had stood up for the three Aunties, against Grannie; now Grannie and the three Aunties were united against Frances.
The Aunties did not see Mr. Vereker climbing into the tree of Heaven.
And so the Aunties are working in the War Hospital Supply Depôt?
The queer thing was that when Michael went to see Grannie and the Aunties in Grannie's house he saw four old women.
In the distance Grannie and the Aunties could be seen climbing the slope of the Heath to Judges' Walk.
He flirted with Frances under Anthony's nose; and with the Aunties under Grannie's nose.
Run to the terrace and see if Grannie and the Auntiesare coming.
But he couldn't see how the three Aunties could be Grannie's other children.
Mamma and my aunties talked to me, but it did not do any good.
But when I looked at her I saw that her face was very white and sad, and my poor aunties were crying.
But on Monday morning there came a letter, which made our aunties look grave.
Sometimes my aunties would come to the door for a minute and peep at me, and ask me what I would like to play with, but it was very dull.
And when she opened the door, to my delight there was mamma, sitting with both my aunties by the fire.
So prim little Annabel was sent home, and the exhausted aunties left Rose to her own devices for a day or two.
Seeing this, the poor aunties racked their brains for a new amusement, and determined to venture a bold stroke, though not very hopeful of its success.
And when Dear Teacher left, all the aunties went out to the gate with her, and Uncle Charlie, just leaving, put her in the carriage, and stood with his hat lifted until she was quite gone.
It was The Exhibition, the Principal, and Miss Carrie, and teachers and pupils, and mammas and aunties and Uncle Charlie.
Ever since then Emmy Lou had lived with the three aunties and the uncle; and papa had been coming a hundred miles once a month to see her.
The aunties laughed, but Emmy Lou put it away with the glazed paper in her Primer.
For another, because it was so underhanded of you to hold back when dear aunties wanted us to marry well.
It's lucky for you that you've got aunties who take such care of you.
One of them that theaunties remembered struck me as rather precocious.
As I was the first child in our immediate family circle, there were plenty of now venerable relatives begging to be allowed to play nurse, my aunties among them.
We sat there so quiet that we could hear the Aunties talking, and Aunty Edith crying every now and then, in the house.
He was a nice man, but not used to little boys, I think, for he used awful big words, and didn't answer questions like Aunties and Uncles do.
By and by the launch came down, but a little late, so it was decided that I was to wait with Mr. Taylor until they took the Aunties to the train; and they'd get me on the way back.
Then both the aunties laughed, and they went to this doorway without any door, and there was a funny thing that looked like a clumsy ladder.
Ever since then Emmy Lou had lived with three aunties and an uncle; and papa had been coming a hundred miles once a month to see her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aunties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
